Print & Product Design

Affinity Publisher

Design and publish real books, magazines, and brochures in Affinity Publisher

12 lessons4 modules9h 50m durationbeginner level

Instructor: StretchLearn Faculty

About this course

This course teaches Affinity Publisher as a professional desktop-publishing tool, the affordable answer to Adobe InDesign. You will set up documents with correct bleed and margins, structure pages with master pages and a baseline grid, flow long copy through linked text frames, control typography with paragraph and character styles, build a contents page with the Fields and cross-reference features, and use StudioLink to edit images and vectors without leaving the file. By the end you will have laid out a complete multi-page publication and exported a preflighted PDF/X file ready for a commercial printer.

Curriculum

Module 1: Getting Oriented and Setting Up a Document3 lessons

Why Affinity Publisher, and What It Is ForPreview40m
Creating a Document: Pages, Margins, and Bleed🔒50m
The Interface, Studio Panels, and the Pages Panel🔒50m

Module 2: Master Pages, Grids, and Page Structure3 lessons

Master Pages: Build Once, Apply Everywhere🔒50m
Automatic Page Numbers, Sections, and Fields🔒45m
Guides, Columns, and the Baseline Grid🔒50m

Module 3: Flowing Text and Controlling Typography3 lessons

Text Frames and Linked Text Flow🔒55m
Paragraph and Character Styles🔒50m
Hyphenation, Justification, and Fixing Bad Spacing🔒45m

Module 4: Images, Tables, Preflight, and Press-Ready Export3 lessons

Picture Frames, Image Wrap, and StudioLink🔒55m
Tables and a Table of Contents🔒45m
Preflight and Press-Ready PDF Export🔒55m